eradicative
21extortionate — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, arousing, bloodsucking, clamant, clamorous, crying, cutthroat, demanding, draining, educible, eductive, elicitory, eradicative, evocative, exacting, exactive, excessive, exigent,… …
22destructive — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unfavorable] Syn. adverse, negative, not constructive; see unfavorable 2 . 2. [Destroying] Syn. ruinous, noxious, baneful, pestiferous, noisome, cancerous, fatal, deleterious, pestilential, catastrophic, calamitous,… …
23destructive — a. 1. Ruinous, pernicious, deleterious, baleful, mischievous, fatal, deadly. 2. [With of.] Extirpative, eradicative, annihilatory …
24destructive — adj 1. ruinous, disastrous, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; devastating, wasting, ravaging; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive; annihila tive, eradicative, extirpative, incendiary,… …
25ruinuous — adj 1. devastating, disastrous, destructive, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; wasting, wasteful, ravaging, pulverizing; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive. 2. extirpative, annihilative,… …
26eradicate — /əˈrædəkeɪt / (say uh raduhkayt), /i / (say ee ) verb (t) (eradicated, eradicating) 1. to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate. 2. to pull up by the roots. {Latin ērādīcātus, past participle rooted out} –eradication /ərædəˈkeɪʃən/ (say uhraduh… …
27destructive — [adj1] injurious, devastating annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell,… …
28eradicate — [ē rad′i kāt΄, irad′ə kāt΄] vt. eradicated, eradicating [ME eradicaten < L eradicatus, pp. of eradicare, to root out < e , out + radix (gen. radicis), ROOT1] 1. to tear out by the roots; uproot 2. to get rid of; wipe out; destroy SYN.… …
